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Cybersecurity Threats, Malware Trends, and Strategies

By : Tim Rains
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Cybersecurity Threats, Malware Trends, and Strategies

By: Tim Rains

Overview of this book

After scrutinizing numerous cybersecurity strategies, Microsoft’s former Global Chief Security Advisor in this book helps you understand the efficacy of popular cybersecurity strategies and more. Cybersecurity Threats, Malware Trends, and Strategies offers an unprecedented long-term view of the global threat landscape by examining the twenty-year trend in vulnerability disclosures and exploitation, nearly a decade of regional differences in malware infections, the socio-economic factors that underpin them, and how global malware has evolved. This will give you further perspectives into malware protection for your organization. It also examines internet-based threats that CISOs should be aware of. The book will provide you with an evaluation of the various cybersecurity strategies that have ultimately failed over the past twenty years, along with one or two that have actually worked. It will help executives and security and compliance professionals understand how cloud computing is a game changer for them. By the end of this book, you will know how to measure the effectiveness of your organization’s cybersecurity strategy and the efficacy of the vendors you employ to help you protect your organization and yourself.
Table of Contents (11 chapters)
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Index

What is a cybersecurity strategy?

Organizations that have a super-strong security culture, essentially have cybersecurity baked into them. For everyone else, there's strategy. In my experience, the terms "strategy" and "tactics" are poorly understood in the business world. One person's strategy is another person's tactics. I once worked with a Corporate Vice President who would tell me that I was talking about tactics when I was explaining our strategy. Throughout my career, I've been in meetings where people have talked past each other because one person is discussing strategies and the other is discussing tactics.

Additionally, security and compliance professionals sometimes use the term "strategy" when they are referring to frameworks, models, or standards. There are lots of these in the industry and many organizations use them. For example, ISO standards, NIST standards, OWASP Top 10, CIS Benchmarks, STRIDE, risk management...